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    which would have to be changed to:
       DIM Fee%(10) AS SHARED, Fie$(10) AS SHARED
    or probably even better:
       DIM Fee%(10), Fie$(10)
       SHARED Fee%(), Fie$()
    in many, but not all cases, PB does not allow type identifiers in
    DIM statements, so QB:
       DIM SHARED Foe%
    would have to be changed to:
       DIM Foe AS SHARED INTEGER
    (I'm hoping PowerBasic will get more consistent about this)
 ELSE--
  QB allows a statement on the same line as ELSE, PB does not.
     ELSE a = b
  becomes:
     ELSE
       a = b
 ERL--
    Jim McKeown noticed that QB seems to return ERL equal to the
    previous line number in the program, but PB reports the most recent
    line that was actually executed.  In this example, QB displays
    "ERL = 20" and PB displays "ERL = 30".
        ON ERROR GOTO Errorhandler
        10     GOTO newstmt
        20     PRINT "never executed"
        newstmt:
               GOSUB sub1
               ERROR 1
        sub1:
        30     RETURN
        Errorhandler:
        PRINT "ERL ="; ERL
        END
 INKEY$--
    Works slightly differently.  I use an old TSR with my enhanced
    keyboard that only catches Int 16, Service 0.  It works with
    anything compiled with PB, but somehow QB programs bypass it (by
    using Service 10h?) Probably irrelevant for a normal user.
 LOCATE with VIEW PRINT--
    QB LOCATE refers to rows and columns relative to the whole screen,
    even if you have defined only part of the screen with VIEW PRINT.
    In PB, LOCATE row, col is relative to the upper left corner of the
    area specified by VIEW TEXT.
 OPTION BINARY BASE--
     in a file opened as binary, QB uses a base of 1, PB defaults to 0.
        "OPEN A$ FOR BINARY AS #1"
     in QB would have to be changed to:
        OPTION BINARY BASE 1
        OPEN A$ FOR BINARY AS #1
 PALETTE--
    QB's PALETTE command actually does two different things.  In screen
    modes <11 it changes the palette.  That is, it can reassign any of
    the 64 EGA colors to any of the color attributes used in the current

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